Dhruv Batra is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director in the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Meta. 

His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and AI. The long-term goal of his research is to develop agents that 'see' (or more generally perceive their environment through vision, audition, or other senses), 'talk' (i.e. hold a natural language dialog grounded in their environment), 'act' (e.g. navigate their environment and interact with it to accomplish goals), and 'reason' (i.e., consider the long-term consequences of their actions).

He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2019), the Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by the US Army (ECASE-Army) (2018), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award (2017), the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (2014), Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award (2014), Outstanding Junior Faculty awards from Georgia Tech (2018) and Virginia Tech (2015), multiple research awards from industry (Google, Amazon, Facebook), Carnegie Mellon Dean's Fellowship (2007), several best paper awards and nominations (CVPR 2022, ICCV 2019, EMNLP 2017) and teaching commendations. His research is supported by NSF, ARO, ARL, ONR, DARPA, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. Research from his lab has been extensively covered in the media (with varying levels of accuracy) at CNN, BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg Business, The Boston Globe, MIT Technology Review, Newsweek, The Verge, New Scientist, and NPR. 

Webpage: https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~dbatra/